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Chicago examiner j vol vii no 186 a m v monday july 26 1909 price one cent h * g 30 cents per month tariff in deadlock as aldrich defies Taft demand for free hides by william hoster president declares packers monopoly must be broken or he will reject report conferees unyielding crucial conferences to be held all of to-day hope for compromise washington july 2,-*.-i**ree hides ls the flat demand of president Taft as a coudition precedent to his approval of the tariff conferees reports and the reply of aldrich is that free hides cannot pass the senate on this point the conferees re main deadlocked to-day in the critical situation the usual morning session has been called off for to-morrow to enable the factions to hold outside conferences they will get together again in the after noon when it is hoped an agreement one way or the other will he reached as the situation stands to-night it can be asserted positively that president Taft will uot approve any report that does not embody free hides and will reject any re port that does not meet with the approval of the president it has all come down to the point where free hides is the issue upou which the conferees split the president has taken his stand on the question he has issued his ultimatum he avows his belief that the whole principle of downward revision is embodied iu free bides aldrich and payne clash that the strain is beginning to tell on j tli conferees was illustrated at the close of the session to-night when a brief but heated passage occurred between senator aldrich and chairman payne the latter has stood throughout the conference for the president's programme and lias shown little disposition to yield to the stand-pat notions of the senate ; rn?^__f^lfb*nn to-night and the conferees had struggled for an hour with bides on ! every proposition forn compromise payne did a lif tie stand-patting himself insist ing on the president's demands finally the usually placid aldrich lost his temper i tayne he is alleged to have cried thumping the table with his fist i am | tired of your dictatorial methods and i won't submit to them this is not the way to reach an agreement and i waut to utter my protest payne gazed stolidly at the table but made no reply a few minutes later with out auy further attempt being made to reach au agreement the conferees ad journed at mercy of packers according to the view of the president clearly expressed to-day there cannot even be a nominal duty on hides it is the president's conviction that any duty on hides however small leaves the manufac turer and ultimately the consumer prac tically at the mercy of the small group of beef packers in Chicago who cujoy a mo nopoly of the hide production in the united states the president believes that the cardinal reason for downward revision of the tariff is to prevent monopolies of all sorts and that by removing the duty ou the hides the market will be opened to the hides of argentine and other places thereby break ing up the monopoly enjoyed by the chi cage beef trust and paving the way for the lowering of duties on manufactured goods including boots and shoes and cheapening the cost to the consumer the3e views the president clearly and forcibly outlined to-day to senators carter sutherland hey burn and clark of wyom ing all of whom are insistent upon the re tention of some duty ou hides however small as a concession to the principle of protection president's arguments unavailing so far as was apparent to-night the argu ments of the president failed to have any effect these senators heard the president and went away but when the conferees met agaiii to-night having failed to reach any decision at this morning's session the same old division showed itself hot words passed betweeu the conferees payne of the ways and means committee who is standing like a rock for the presi dent's plans was charged by senator al drich with being dictatorial the table was thumped repeatedly by the tariff tinkers and then they adjourned until 2:30 o'clock to-morrow afternoon there were strong indications to-day that ' the president will be willing to compromise ' on the other schedules it is known for ' example that with the reductions of from 2j to 75 per ceut that he has secured tu . iron and steel schedules the president will ' be willing to concede a duty of from 10 ' to 15 cents ou iron ore a practical com l promise has already been reached on coal ' at 45 eeuts without reciprocity on lumber ] at 1.25 on splitting the difference be i tween the house and senate rates on gloves and hosiery and on free petroleum indeed there are indications that the i'resident believes that despite the high ' temperature over free hides in the con ference room the conferees are not far from an agreement for he was quoted to night as having told some of his callers â€¢' today that he looked for au agreement ' within a couple of days i to-morrow may tell the tale all morn o ing there ill be conferences of various s kinds betweeu the conflicting elements and i the hope is stronger to-uig*ht that bow o ng to the inevitable the hide men will i gltfi way and enable the conferees to i get out a report in time for submission t tu the house oa tuesday . girl reported engaged to wed prince murat marguerite shonts not duchesse prince's choice international romance bared in ex planation of engagement re ported from paris an explanation of the reported engage ment of prince joachim murat of paris france to duchesse de chaulnes formerly miss theodora shonts subsequently denied which carries with it a promise of an in ternational marriage of even more romantic character reached Chicago in advices from paris yesterday instead of bein engaged tn the duchesso the prince is said to have lost his heart to marguerite siionts her sister who went abro.ad in june to become the special protege of mrs arthur paget in london | from london she went to paris where she j met the prince who is a warm friend of ithe duchesse that ber sister acted as j chaperon in the frequent little pleasure ' jaunts the three took around paris is held i responsible for the erroneous report tha i duchesse de chauincs was to wed again the prince ' is a member of a swagger bachelor set in paris which in the last two mouths has giveu a number of unique bails and dinners madame shonts is occupying the hue old country chateau of aubour sault near epeniay when the report of the engagement of the duchesse to the prince was carried to her she character ized sacll stories as stuff and nonsense but said nothing about miss marguerite's | romance the murats are a wealthy fatn ily the title is napoleonic the elder prince is most prominent in paris social life through being the head of the jockey club which runs all the classic races ou the french turf he is popular and is re garded as a typical modern parisian in tastes and accomplishments Chicago woman hurled over mountain precipice mrs j f lewy seriously injured when burro stumbles on hazardous descent golden colo july 23 mrs j f lewy of Chicago was hurled over an em liaukment from the back of a burro and seriously injured to-day while descending lookout mountain three ribs were broken and the woman's face and body arc badly bruised it is feared to-night she may be injured internally after making the ascent to-day and en joying a mountain top luncheon the party in^charge of will r smith a well known jeweler of this city started to make the descent burros are used exclusively on this hazardous trip half way down turn ing at a sharp angle with a deep precipice below the burro on which mrs lewy was riding stumbled and fell throwing her she was rescued and after a painful hour's ride taken to a local hospital j f lewy husband of the mrs lewy injured iu colorado is a cousin of the pro prietors of the state street jewelry firm of lewy brothers she is the daughter of william h coleman i298 beacon street her Chicago home is at g220 indiana ave nue ruled white house dead daughter of zachnry taylor suc cumbs after month's illness winchester va july 23.-mis eliz abeth taylor dandrldge daughter of zach ary taylor president of the united s.ates and mistress of the white house during the administration of her father died this evening after au illness of a month mrs dandridge who was eighty-six years old was a sister of the first wife of jefferson davis president of the confederacy and also of the wife of surgeon general wood of the army when general taylor be came president bis daughter then known as betty taylor took the place of her in valid mother as mistress of the white house mrs taylor died during the ad ministration of her husband warship breaks record michigan's speed in trial said to be mnetecn knots an hour philadelphia july 23 the united state battleship michigan ' which returned to-day from her trial trip is reported to have broken all speed records for a vessel of the battleship type thc michigan is said to have made a fraction more than nineteen knots an hour her speed re quirement was 17vi knots the inspection board of naval officers left the vessel at lewes del to return to washington and the official time will not be kuowu uutil they make their tepo â€¢ policeman's pistol halts beale auto millionaire declares maywood officer aimed weapon but latter denies car speeding is charge arrested lawyer whose wife is frightened declares affair is outrage william g beale of the firm of isham lincoln & beale lawyers while riding in an automobile through maywood yesterday was stopped by a policeman at the point of a revolver in the automobile were mr and mrs beale and the driver they were returning from wheaton and were travers ing the paved portion of st charles road when jacob kepple a special policeman stepped into the path of the automobile and drawing a revolver pointed it men acingly toward the party mrs beale screamed and threw herself upon her husband for protection the owner of the motor car half leaped from his seat as the chauffeur applied the emergency break and brought the machine to a stop within a yard of ths spot on which kepple stood mr beale was speechless with amazement for a moment and theu he demanded to know why the lives of those in the automobile had been imperiled policeman enters auto kepple refused to answer any of mr beale's questions and insisted on being allowed to enter the car he ordered the chauffeur to drive to justice of the peace pitt's office and there he entered a formal charge of speeding july 27 was fixed as the day for trial and the prisoner was released upon depositing 5o cash bond this thing is an outrage declared mr beale as he was given his liberty by jus tice ritt it is outrageous to be treated as we have been by that insolent over officious and discourteous officer i shall make somebody smart for this i was treated courteously by the other village officials but i will not submit to being misused in the manner accorded us this afternoon the officer says ne were going twenty two miles an hour the speed does uot matter under the law so long as one is not endangering life there is no reason why the number of a machine cannot be taken and the owner notified by mail to appear in court instead of holding one up on the road as though he were a highwayman denies aiming revolver i don't propose to have anybody run over mc declared officer kepple when i saw that machine coming straight to ward me i knew that i was liable to be run over and drew my revolver to show the speeders that i meant business i did not point the revolver at the party but merely showed them that i was not to be bluffed the automobile had already passed one officer who had ordered mr beale to stop and i was determined not to let him pass me i am not the justice and he had no reason to expect me to prove a case against him there in the middle of the street the best way to do is to take them right to the justice and have the thing settled fairly and in a regular man ner other arrests were made as follows walter s shawvan 2031 michigan ave nue cbicago c a englebeck 1501 mich igan boulevard e c cheyney Chicago and h cletholtz 1095 n clark street u.s guns in world record 5-inch rapid fire rifles hit bull's eye ten tini-es in succession san francisco july 23 the world's record with the big guns hidden iu the hills near the golden gate has been made the wonderful showing of the crew of the five inch rapid-fire rifle of battery boutelle manned by corporal elmer e swanton and his six assistants will be heard around the globe wherever guns are emplaced and countries and ships are manned by fight ing men the record will not be surpassed for it was perfect the bull's-eye having been struck ten times in ns many shots the shooting was done at moving targets two and a half miles away it was all done iu one minute and thirty seconds the ten solid shells piercing the bull's-eye clearly mrs taft's father ill john w hcrron suffers paralytic stroke â€” may be fntal cincinnati 0 july 25 john w herron father-in-law of president will iam howard Taft is seriously 111 at the home of his son-in-law charles ander son jr 2429 grandin road east walnut hills mr herron has been ailing for many years and on saturday he suffered a stroke of paralysis owing to his ad vanced age it is feared that the stroke will be fatal he is past eighty-two it was stated to-day that mr herron's con dition was a trifle better than on satur day night mrs Taft has been notified by dr emanuel schwab the attending physician but at his advice has not yet started for her father's bedside 1000 see mad tiger mangle its trainer hurls man to floor gashes and beats him at coney j island 7 lions join in battle keepers rush in and as audi ence flees subdue en raged beasts new york july 25 henry falken dorph regarded as one of the most in trepid animal trainers iu the world came to the end of his thrilling career to-day in . bostocks dreamland coney island in the presence of nearly a thousand women and children he was clawed and bitten by mogul an untamable tiger falken ' dorph is dying of a fractured skull in ternal injuries and severe lacerations he had seven lions and two tigers uuder his care i the tigers are rajah and mogul last summer the trainer had a hard battle with rajah who so injured him that falkendorph had to go to a hospital he did not fear rajah to-day but he con fessed fear of mogul who has been on exhibition only two weeks mogul was captured recently and has not lost his ferocity so wheu the trainer entered the arena barred with iron so that the animals can not reach the audience mogul was led by a long chaiu the end of which was fastened to the bars the big tiger at thc crack of falkendorphs whip sudden ly sprang to his appointed stool and sat there his eyes aslant his claws protruding in anger hurls trainer to floor the trainer whipped the lions into line and then turned back to where rajah was crouching on his stool falkendorpb had to pass mc il on the way and ay he did so the tiger with a snarl leaped snapped his chain and bore the trainer to the floor the audience was stunned for a few sec onds while the tiger with the agility of its species clawed swiftly at the fallen man falkendorph who had been through srn-b experiences ive times kept his head and managed to get out his revolver he thrust it against tax throat of mogul and pulled the trigger thc cartridge did not explode the tiger lunging suddenly sank its fangs into the man's left shoulder and the latter ceased his struggles after thc flrst shock to the audience which rendered all practically incapable of movement the women and children shrieking in fright rusilied to the various exits meanwhile the seven lions released from the control of their master started to battle among themselves tumbling wild ly about wliile attendants went pell mell for prongs and clubs the audience had fled by this time and a great crowd gathered outside the struc ture listening to the roars of the lions as they fought trainers overpower tiger jack bonavito jack martin and tom callan trainers hustled into the arena with the metal prongs and clubs tbey stabbed at mogul with all their might but the tiger kept clawing at falkendorph in flicting about twenty deep wounds on the man's back tearing through his uniform and lacerating his face and chest and finally with a supreme effort bringing his paw down upon the trainer's skull fractur ing it instantly the men were at the animal again and forced it into a corner when the attacking party got through mogul was so weak he could scarcely move a rope was quickly passed around him and he was dragged to his den lacerated and bleeding all the flght taken out of him falkendorph was taken to the emergency hospital up to an early hour this morn ing falkendorph had not regained hi3 senses lawyer wm brown dies was fr.rmer counsel for alton itoifcl and w j bryan's preceptor jacksonville hi july 23.-williarn brown until 1903 counsel for the Chicago & alton railroad died here to-day at the age of seventy years he was a graduate of the Illinois college and of the missouri university he was chairman ot the state democratic central committee in 1876 and from 1887 to 1889 was a member of the law firm of beckwith & brown Chicago he was solicitor of the wabash prior to his connection with the alton mr broivn was an intimate friend of w j bryau who studied law in his office at a ban quet here mr bryan once declared that his preceptor had the finest legal mind of any lawyer he had ever met he leaves a son william brown jr who ran for su perior judge on the democratic ticket in Chicago at the last judiciary election dorothy lawson to wed henry mccall son of congressman wins financier's daughter boston july 25 the engagement of miss dorothy lawson third daughter of thomas w lawson to henry mccall son of congressman mccall of winchester is announced from dreamwold the lawson resideuce sbe will be married in january at dreamwold miss dorothy tiawson is just twenty like her sisters she is an expert whip and rider and a member of the exclusive vincent club in whose an nual shows she has participated hal mccall is twenty-three harvard 09 he is a member of hnsty pudding polo dickie and a d clubs in 1006 1907 and 1008 he was the star second baseman at harvard miss dorothy id an ardeut baseball fan bleriot tells story of flight lost midway but fearless by louis bleriot swift boat beneath him out stripped in the flight over channel trip made in 25 minutes declares he could repeat the trip but promises wife not to fly again is given prize of 5,000 the following story of his flight from france to england across the english channel teas written for the Chicago examiner yesterday by louis bleriot the french aeioplanist who made the trip successfully early yes terday morning special cable to the examiner dover july 25 â€” it is more important to be the first man to cross the english channel by aeroplane than to have won the prize of 1,000 pounds nevertheless i must first acknowledge the daily mail's recognition of the importance of aviation in offering a prize which i have had the honor to win 1 am glad i won it i am more than happy that i crossed the channel at first i prom ised my wife i would not make the attempt then i determined that if one man failed i would be the first to come and i am here at 2:30 this morning i arose in the terminus hotel calais and at 3 o'clock departed with my friend le blanc in an automobile to baraques on our way we noted that the weather was favorable for my endeavor we therefore ordered the torpedo destroyer escopette generously placed at my disposal by our government to start at 4:30 a m we went to the garage and examined the aeroplane which is my eleventh i started the engine and found it worked well starts on flight as dav breaks all was ready for the start and at 4 o'clock i took my seat on the aeroplane and made a trial flight of a quarter of an hour around calais and its environs the circuit was about fifteen kilometers having com pleted it i desceneded upon the spot on the cliff from which i intended to start here i waited for sunshine the conditions of thedaily mail prize requiring that i fly between sunrise and sunset at 4:30 we could see all around daylight had come le blanc en deavored to get a glimpse of the coast of england but could not there was a light breeze from the southwest and the air was clear every thing was prepared i wore a khaki jacket lined with wool for warmth over my tweed clothes and beneath my engineer's suit of blue cotton overall my cap was fastened over my head and ears i neither had eaten nor drunk anything since i rose my thoughts were only upon the flight and my determination to accomplish it this morning at 4:35 all was ready le blanc gives the signal in an instant i am in the air my engine making 1,200 revolutions almost its highest speed in order that i may get quickly over the telegraph wires along the edge of the cliff as soon as i am over the cliff i re duce my speed there is now no need to force my engine passes the destroyer in ten minutes i begin my flight steady and sure toward the coast of england i have no apprehensions no sensations at all the escopette has seen me and she is driving ahead at full speed she makes forty-two kilometers an hour what matter as i am making at least sixty-eight kilometers rapidly i overtake her traveling at a height of eighty meters about 250 feet the moment is supreme yet i surprise myself by feeling no exul tation below me is the sea the surface disturbed by the wind which now is freshening the motion of the waves beneath me is not pleasant i drive on ten minutes have gone and i have passed the destroyer i turn my head to see whether i am proceeding in the right direction i am amaied there is nothing to be seen neither the torpedo destroyer nor france nor england i am alone i can see nothing at all for ten minutes i am lost it is a strange position to be alone and ungulded without compass in the air over the middle of the channel i touch nothing my hands and feet resting lightly on the levers i let the aeroplane take its own course i care not whither it goes for ten minutes i continue neither rising nor falling nor turning then twenty minutes after i left the french coast i see the green cliffs of dover dover castie and to the west the spot where i in tended to land carried out of his course by the wind what can i do it is evident the wind has taken me out of my course i am almost at st margaret's bay and going in the direction of goodwin sands now it is time to attend to steering i press the lever with my foot and turn easily towards the west reversing the di rection in which i am traveling now indeed i am in difficulties for the wind here by the cliffs is much stronger and my speed is reduced as i fight against it yet my beautiful aeroplane responds still stead ily i fly westward hoping to cross the harbor and reach shakespeare cliff again the wind blows i see an opening in the cliff although i am confident i can con tinue for an hour and a half that i might indeed return to calais i cannot resist the opportunity to make a landing upon this green spot once more i turn my aeroplane and in describing a half circle i enter the opening and find myself again over dry land avoiding buildings at my right i attempt a landing but the wind catches me and whirls me around two or three times i stop my mo tor instantly my machines descends straight upon the land from a height of twenty meters in two or three seconds i am safe upon the shore soldiers run up and policemen two of my compatriots are on the spot they kiss my cheeks the conclusion of my flight over whelms me i have nothing to say but accept the congratulations of representatives of the daily mail and accompany them to the lord warden hotel thus ends my flight across the english channel flight could easily be made again the flight could easily be done again shall i do it i think not i have promised my wife that after the race for which i have entered i will fly no more mme bleriot said to the representative of the Chicago examiner i am very happy it seemed a year since i waited on the bridge of the destroyer longing for him to start then when he rose mounting like a bird into the sky my tears came how could i help it when i thought of the danger he was about to enter my fears vanished when i saw how well he was flying when at last he passed over ivy head i clapped my hands joyfully again i was despondent when he disappeared from our sight and i feared greatly it seemed he could never reach england i cannot tell facts about bleriot's flight and monoplane left les baraques calais 4:30 a m landed at dover 4:55 a m distance twenty-one miles time of transit twenty-five min utes average speed forty-five miles an hour highest speed sixty miles an hour altitude of flight 250 feet dimxihsions of mosoplane from tip to tip of wing twenty feet weight of machine 400 pounds motor twenty-five horsepower south side hit in ghaft phobe to-day 200 summoned more startling revelations are promised than on west side frank sees plot to impeach his confession vice ring agents seek to silence divekeepers heitler as ringleader said to be using threats to aid mc cann collector says broth er saw him pay inspector shatz accused official in desplaines station plummer admits he visited mccann's home with frank to complain about police man who had arrested him the big graft ring in the twenty second street district will be the tar get for the heavy guns of state's at torney wayman's office to-day and revelations which are expected to ex ceed in magnitude the disclosures made in regard to the west side will be revealed before the grand jury two hundred subpoenas are out for the habitues of ther district and the men who have long been in power on the south side levee are trembling for their safety the preparations for the big south side expose were made while the west side vice caldron was still seeth ing and boiiing the state's attorney is not through with the west side by any means and many subpoenas to appear before the grand jury were served upon resort keepers along peo ria green and halsted streets by de tectives from the state's attorney's office during the afternoon try to stop witnesses already preparations are being made by the vice ring to discourage witnesses from telling their stories of graft to the grand jury louis frank saloon keeper and politician who-e confession of bribe giving led to the indictment of inspector edward mo cann declared yesterday that the keepers of dives and resorts were be ing visited by agents of the ring who were using every means at their com mand to place a seal upon the lips of the graft witnesses story stopped grafting frank declares that michael heitler nicknamed mike the pike is the ringleader of the graft agents and that he is cajoling and threatening witnesses in an effort to impeach the confession made to the grand jury by frank my story has stopped grafting on the west side and men who have fat tened for years off of the money paid by women and criminals in the dis trict are trying to get me said louis frank yesterday i was forced into the graft ring by inspector mccann and have never profited to the extent of one dollar from the money i col lected it all went into mccann's pockets says he has witnesses i was warned to-day that there was a big frameup on foot whereby an at tempt would be made to show that while collecting money from resort keepers i was doing it on my own re sponsibility and was putting the mon ey in my own pocket can you corroborate your story of giving bribes to mccann was asked yes indeed i can was the reply my brother julius saw me give him one roll of money amounting to about 4o0 and morris shatz who started the present in vestigation because he was sore at mccann because he did not get the police protec tion that he was paying for himself talked to mccann about graft and openly accused the inspector several weeks ago iu front of uif desk sergeant's window in the dco pl.vne street police statlou says plummer knows of graft max plummer is another man who know something about tiie grafting of mel'anu for he was in mcc'auu's own iionie when i m the bargain with the , inspector to let try ou the prosecution of continued on 2d page 2d column Â» " rlt wwaimmr_fli____3ii_an3cp jjl weather forecast ft fr Chicago and~vicinity un ft ft Â» settled and partly cloudy with prob j vj ably showers monday or tuesday t.*f oj continued warm light to moderate ffl -Â«?â€¢ - variable winds mostly southerly *%_Â£*.â– large profit from small effort may be obtained by a careful read ing of the wairr ads which ap pear on pages 10 and 11 among classifications under which bargains are likely to be found are real estate busiucss chances household goods barter and exchange mctor marts horses and carriages bt<jre and office fixtures musical instruments etc it pays to read the classified advertising every day fl look among l [ i the want ads t'l

Chicago examiner j vol vii no 186 a m v monday july 26 1909 price one cent h * g 30 cents per month tariff in deadlock as aldrich defies Taft demand for free hides by william hoster president declares packers monopoly must be broken or he will reject report conferees unyielding crucial conferences to be held all of to-day hope for compromise washington july 2,-*.-i**ree hides ls the flat demand of president Taft as a coudition precedent to his approval of the tariff conferees reports and the reply of aldrich is that free hides cannot pass the senate on this point the conferees re main deadlocked to-day in the critical situation the usual morning session has been called off for to-morrow to enable the factions to hold outside conferences they will get together again in the after noon when it is hoped an agreement one way or the other will he reached as the situation stands to-night it can be asserted positively that president Taft will uot approve any report that does not embody free hides and will reject any re port that does not meet with the approval of the president it has all come down to the point where free hides is the issue upou which the conferees split the president has taken his stand on the question he has issued his ultimatum he avows his belief that the whole principle of downward revision is embodied iu free bides aldrich and payne clash that the strain is beginning to tell on j tli conferees was illustrated at the close of the session to-night when a brief but heated passage occurred between senator aldrich and chairman payne the latter has stood throughout the conference for the president's programme and lias shown little disposition to yield to the stand-pat notions of the senate ; rn?^__f^lfb*nn to-night and the conferees had struggled for an hour with bides on ! every proposition forn compromise payne did a lif tie stand-patting himself insist ing on the president's demands finally the usually placid aldrich lost his temper i tayne he is alleged to have cried thumping the table with his fist i am | tired of your dictatorial methods and i won't submit to them this is not the way to reach an agreement and i waut to utter my protest payne gazed stolidly at the table but made no reply a few minutes later with out auy further attempt being made to reach au agreement the conferees ad journed at mercy of packers according to the view of the president clearly expressed to-day there cannot even be a nominal duty on hides it is the president's conviction that any duty on hides however small leaves the manufac turer and ultimately the consumer prac tically at the mercy of the small group of beef packers in Chicago who cujoy a mo nopoly of the hide production in the united states the president believes that the cardinal reason for downward revision of the tariff is to prevent monopolies of all sorts and that by removing the duty ou the hides the market will be opened to the hides of argentine and other places thereby break ing up the monopoly enjoyed by the chi cage beef trust and paving the way for the lowering of duties on manufactured goods including boots and shoes and cheapening the cost to the consumer the3e views the president clearly and forcibly outlined to-day to senators carter sutherland hey burn and clark of wyom ing all of whom are insistent upon the re tention of some duty ou hides however small as a concession to the principle of protection president's arguments unavailing so far as was apparent to-night the argu ments of the president failed to have any effect these senators heard the president and went away but when the conferees met agaiii to-night having failed to reach any decision at this morning's session the same old division showed itself hot words passed betweeu the conferees payne of the ways and means committee who is standing like a rock for the presi dent's plans was charged by senator al drich with being dictatorial the table was thumped repeatedly by the tariff tinkers and then they adjourned until 2:30 o'clock to-morrow afternoon there were strong indications to-day that ' the president will be willing to compromise ' on the other schedules it is known for ' example that with the reductions of from 2j to 75 per ceut that he has secured tu . iron and steel schedules the president will ' be willing to concede a duty of from 10 ' to 15 cents ou iron ore a practical com l promise has already been reached on coal ' at 45 eeuts without reciprocity on lumber ] at 1.25 on splitting the difference be i tween the house and senate rates on gloves and hosiery and on free petroleum indeed there are indications that the i'resident believes that despite the high ' temperature over free hides in the con ference room the conferees are not far from an agreement for he was quoted to night as having told some of his callers â€¢' today that he looked for au agreement ' within a couple of days i to-morrow may tell the tale all morn o ing there ill be conferences of various s kinds betweeu the conflicting elements and i the hope is stronger to-uig*ht that bow o ng to the inevitable the hide men will i gltfi way and enable the conferees to i get out a report in time for submission t tu the house oa tuesday . girl reported engaged to wed prince murat marguerite shonts not duchesse prince's choice international romance bared in ex planation of engagement re ported from paris an explanation of the reported engage ment of prince joachim murat of paris france to duchesse de chaulnes formerly miss theodora shonts subsequently denied which carries with it a promise of an in ternational marriage of even more romantic character reached Chicago in advices from paris yesterday instead of bein engaged tn the duchesso the prince is said to have lost his heart to marguerite siionts her sister who went abro.ad in june to become the special protege of mrs arthur paget in london | from london she went to paris where she j met the prince who is a warm friend of ithe duchesse that ber sister acted as j chaperon in the frequent little pleasure ' jaunts the three took around paris is held i responsible for the erroneous report tha i duchesse de chauincs was to wed again the prince ' is a member of a swagger bachelor set in paris which in the last two mouths has giveu a number of unique bails and dinners madame shonts is occupying the hue old country chateau of aubour sault near epeniay when the report of the engagement of the duchesse to the prince was carried to her she character ized sacll stories as stuff and nonsense but said nothing about miss marguerite's | romance the murats are a wealthy fatn ily the title is napoleonic the elder prince is most prominent in paris social life through being the head of the jockey club which runs all the classic races ou the french turf he is popular and is re garded as a typical modern parisian in tastes and accomplishments Chicago woman hurled over mountain precipice mrs j f lewy seriously injured when burro stumbles on hazardous descent golden colo july 23 mrs j f lewy of Chicago was hurled over an em liaukment from the back of a burro and seriously injured to-day while descending lookout mountain three ribs were broken and the woman's face and body arc badly bruised it is feared to-night she may be injured internally after making the ascent to-day and en joying a mountain top luncheon the party in^charge of will r smith a well known jeweler of this city started to make the descent burros are used exclusively on this hazardous trip half way down turn ing at a sharp angle with a deep precipice below the burro on which mrs lewy was riding stumbled and fell throwing her she was rescued and after a painful hour's ride taken to a local hospital j f lewy husband of the mrs lewy injured iu colorado is a cousin of the pro prietors of the state street jewelry firm of lewy brothers she is the daughter of william h coleman i298 beacon street her Chicago home is at g220 indiana ave nue ruled white house dead daughter of zachnry taylor suc cumbs after month's illness winchester va july 23.-mis eliz abeth taylor dandrldge daughter of zach ary taylor president of the united s.ates and mistress of the white house during the administration of her father died this evening after au illness of a month mrs dandridge who was eighty-six years old was a sister of the first wife of jefferson davis president of the confederacy and also of the wife of surgeon general wood of the army when general taylor be came president bis daughter then known as betty taylor took the place of her in valid mother as mistress of the white house mrs taylor died during the ad ministration of her husband warship breaks record michigan's speed in trial said to be mnetecn knots an hour philadelphia july 23 the united state battleship michigan ' which returned to-day from her trial trip is reported to have broken all speed records for a vessel of the battleship type thc michigan is said to have made a fraction more than nineteen knots an hour her speed re quirement was 17vi knots the inspection board of naval officers left the vessel at lewes del to return to washington and the official time will not be kuowu uutil they make their tepo â€¢ policeman's pistol halts beale auto millionaire declares maywood officer aimed weapon but latter denies car speeding is charge arrested lawyer whose wife is frightened declares affair is outrage william g beale of the firm of isham lincoln & beale lawyers while riding in an automobile through maywood yesterday was stopped by a policeman at the point of a revolver in the automobile were mr and mrs beale and the driver they were returning from wheaton and were travers ing the paved portion of st charles road when jacob kepple a special policeman stepped into the path of the automobile and drawing a revolver pointed it men acingly toward the party mrs beale screamed and threw herself upon her husband for protection the owner of the motor car half leaped from his seat as the chauffeur applied the emergency break and brought the machine to a stop within a yard of ths spot on which kepple stood mr beale was speechless with amazement for a moment and theu he demanded to know why the lives of those in the automobile had been imperiled policeman enters auto kepple refused to answer any of mr beale's questions and insisted on being allowed to enter the car he ordered the chauffeur to drive to justice of the peace pitt's office and there he entered a formal charge of speeding july 27 was fixed as the day for trial and the prisoner was released upon depositing 5o cash bond this thing is an outrage declared mr beale as he was given his liberty by jus tice ritt it is outrageous to be treated as we have been by that insolent over officious and discourteous officer i shall make somebody smart for this i was treated courteously by the other village officials but i will not submit to being misused in the manner accorded us this afternoon the officer says ne were going twenty two miles an hour the speed does uot matter under the law so long as one is not endangering life there is no reason why the number of a machine cannot be taken and the owner notified by mail to appear in court instead of holding one up on the road as though he were a highwayman denies aiming revolver i don't propose to have anybody run over mc declared officer kepple when i saw that machine coming straight to ward me i knew that i was liable to be run over and drew my revolver to show the speeders that i meant business i did not point the revolver at the party but merely showed them that i was not to be bluffed the automobile had already passed one officer who had ordered mr beale to stop and i was determined not to let him pass me i am not the justice and he had no reason to expect me to prove a case against him there in the middle of the street the best way to do is to take them right to the justice and have the thing settled fairly and in a regular man ner other arrests were made as follows walter s shawvan 2031 michigan ave nue cbicago c a englebeck 1501 mich igan boulevard e c cheyney Chicago and h cletholtz 1095 n clark street u.s guns in world record 5-inch rapid fire rifles hit bull's eye ten tini-es in succession san francisco july 23 the world's record with the big guns hidden iu the hills near the golden gate has been made the wonderful showing of the crew of the five inch rapid-fire rifle of battery boutelle manned by corporal elmer e swanton and his six assistants will be heard around the globe wherever guns are emplaced and countries and ships are manned by fight ing men the record will not be surpassed for it was perfect the bull's-eye having been struck ten times in ns many shots the shooting was done at moving targets two and a half miles away it was all done iu one minute and thirty seconds the ten solid shells piercing the bull's-eye clearly mrs taft's father ill john w hcrron suffers paralytic stroke â€” may be fntal cincinnati 0 july 25 john w herron father-in-law of president will iam howard Taft is seriously 111 at the home of his son-in-law charles ander son jr 2429 grandin road east walnut hills mr herron has been ailing for many years and on saturday he suffered a stroke of paralysis owing to his ad vanced age it is feared that the stroke will be fatal he is past eighty-two it was stated to-day that mr herron's con dition was a trifle better than on satur day night mrs Taft has been notified by dr emanuel schwab the attending physician but at his advice has not yet started for her father's bedside 1000 see mad tiger mangle its trainer hurls man to floor gashes and beats him at coney j island 7 lions join in battle keepers rush in and as audi ence flees subdue en raged beasts new york july 25 henry falken dorph regarded as one of the most in trepid animal trainers iu the world came to the end of his thrilling career to-day in . bostocks dreamland coney island in the presence of nearly a thousand women and children he was clawed and bitten by mogul an untamable tiger falken ' dorph is dying of a fractured skull in ternal injuries and severe lacerations he had seven lions and two tigers uuder his care i the tigers are rajah and mogul last summer the trainer had a hard battle with rajah who so injured him that falkendorph had to go to a hospital he did not fear rajah to-day but he con fessed fear of mogul who has been on exhibition only two weeks mogul was captured recently and has not lost his ferocity so wheu the trainer entered the arena barred with iron so that the animals can not reach the audience mogul was led by a long chaiu the end of which was fastened to the bars the big tiger at thc crack of falkendorphs whip sudden ly sprang to his appointed stool and sat there his eyes aslant his claws protruding in anger hurls trainer to floor the trainer whipped the lions into line and then turned back to where rajah was crouching on his stool falkendorpb had to pass mc il on the way and ay he did so the tiger with a snarl leaped snapped his chain and bore the trainer to the floor the audience was stunned for a few sec onds while the tiger with the agility of its species clawed swiftly at the fallen man falkendorph who had been through srn-b experiences ive times kept his head and managed to get out his revolver he thrust it against tax throat of mogul and pulled the trigger thc cartridge did not explode the tiger lunging suddenly sank its fangs into the man's left shoulder and the latter ceased his struggles after thc flrst shock to the audience which rendered all practically incapable of movement the women and children shrieking in fright rusilied to the various exits meanwhile the seven lions released from the control of their master started to battle among themselves tumbling wild ly about wliile attendants went pell mell for prongs and clubs the audience had fled by this time and a great crowd gathered outside the struc ture listening to the roars of the lions as they fought trainers overpower tiger jack bonavito jack martin and tom callan trainers hustled into the arena with the metal prongs and clubs tbey stabbed at mogul with all their might but the tiger kept clawing at falkendorph in flicting about twenty deep wounds on the man's back tearing through his uniform and lacerating his face and chest and finally with a supreme effort bringing his paw down upon the trainer's skull fractur ing it instantly the men were at the animal again and forced it into a corner when the attacking party got through mogul was so weak he could scarcely move a rope was quickly passed around him and he was dragged to his den lacerated and bleeding all the flght taken out of him falkendorph was taken to the emergency hospital up to an early hour this morn ing falkendorph had not regained hi3 senses lawyer wm brown dies was fr.rmer counsel for alton itoifcl and w j bryan's preceptor jacksonville hi july 23.-williarn brown until 1903 counsel for the Chicago & alton railroad died here to-day at the age of seventy years he was a graduate of the Illinois college and of the missouri university he was chairman ot the state democratic central committee in 1876 and from 1887 to 1889 was a member of the law firm of beckwith & brown Chicago he was solicitor of the wabash prior to his connection with the alton mr broivn was an intimate friend of w j bryau who studied law in his office at a ban quet here mr bryan once declared that his preceptor had the finest legal mind of any lawyer he had ever met he leaves a son william brown jr who ran for su perior judge on the democratic ticket in Chicago at the last judiciary election dorothy lawson to wed henry mccall son of congressman wins financier's daughter boston july 25 the engagement of miss dorothy lawson third daughter of thomas w lawson to henry mccall son of congressman mccall of winchester is announced from dreamwold the lawson resideuce sbe will be married in january at dreamwold miss dorothy tiawson is just twenty like her sisters she is an expert whip and rider and a member of the exclusive vincent club in whose an nual shows she has participated hal mccall is twenty-three harvard 09 he is a member of hnsty pudding polo dickie and a d clubs in 1006 1907 and 1008 he was the star second baseman at harvard miss dorothy id an ardeut baseball fan bleriot tells story of flight lost midway but fearless by louis bleriot swift boat beneath him out stripped in the flight over channel trip made in 25 minutes declares he could repeat the trip but promises wife not to fly again is given prize of 5,000 the following story of his flight from france to england across the english channel teas written for the Chicago examiner yesterday by louis bleriot the french aeioplanist who made the trip successfully early yes terday morning special cable to the examiner dover july 25 â€” it is more important to be the first man to cross the english channel by aeroplane than to have won the prize of 1,000 pounds nevertheless i must first acknowledge the daily mail's recognition of the importance of aviation in offering a prize which i have had the honor to win 1 am glad i won it i am more than happy that i crossed the channel at first i prom ised my wife i would not make the attempt then i determined that if one man failed i would be the first to come and i am here at 2:30 this morning i arose in the terminus hotel calais and at 3 o'clock departed with my friend le blanc in an automobile to baraques on our way we noted that the weather was favorable for my endeavor we therefore ordered the torpedo destroyer escopette generously placed at my disposal by our government to start at 4:30 a m we went to the garage and examined the aeroplane which is my eleventh i started the engine and found it worked well starts on flight as dav breaks all was ready for the start and at 4 o'clock i took my seat on the aeroplane and made a trial flight of a quarter of an hour around calais and its environs the circuit was about fifteen kilometers having com pleted it i desceneded upon the spot on the cliff from which i intended to start here i waited for sunshine the conditions of thedaily mail prize requiring that i fly between sunrise and sunset at 4:30 we could see all around daylight had come le blanc en deavored to get a glimpse of the coast of england but could not there was a light breeze from the southwest and the air was clear every thing was prepared i wore a khaki jacket lined with wool for warmth over my tweed clothes and beneath my engineer's suit of blue cotton overall my cap was fastened over my head and ears i neither had eaten nor drunk anything since i rose my thoughts were only upon the flight and my determination to accomplish it this morning at 4:35 all was ready le blanc gives the signal in an instant i am in the air my engine making 1,200 revolutions almost its highest speed in order that i may get quickly over the telegraph wires along the edge of the cliff as soon as i am over the cliff i re duce my speed there is now no need to force my engine passes the destroyer in ten minutes i begin my flight steady and sure toward the coast of england i have no apprehensions no sensations at all the escopette has seen me and she is driving ahead at full speed she makes forty-two kilometers an hour what matter as i am making at least sixty-eight kilometers rapidly i overtake her traveling at a height of eighty meters about 250 feet the moment is supreme yet i surprise myself by feeling no exul tation below me is the sea the surface disturbed by the wind which now is freshening the motion of the waves beneath me is not pleasant i drive on ten minutes have gone and i have passed the destroyer i turn my head to see whether i am proceeding in the right direction i am amaied there is nothing to be seen neither the torpedo destroyer nor france nor england i am alone i can see nothing at all for ten minutes i am lost it is a strange position to be alone and ungulded without compass in the air over the middle of the channel i touch nothing my hands and feet resting lightly on the levers i let the aeroplane take its own course i care not whither it goes for ten minutes i continue neither rising nor falling nor turning then twenty minutes after i left the french coast i see the green cliffs of dover dover castie and to the west the spot where i in tended to land carried out of his course by the wind what can i do it is evident the wind has taken me out of my course i am almost at st margaret's bay and going in the direction of goodwin sands now it is time to attend to steering i press the lever with my foot and turn easily towards the west reversing the di rection in which i am traveling now indeed i am in difficulties for the wind here by the cliffs is much stronger and my speed is reduced as i fight against it yet my beautiful aeroplane responds still stead ily i fly westward hoping to cross the harbor and reach shakespeare cliff again the wind blows i see an opening in the cliff although i am confident i can con tinue for an hour and a half that i might indeed return to calais i cannot resist the opportunity to make a landing upon this green spot once more i turn my aeroplane and in describing a half circle i enter the opening and find myself again over dry land avoiding buildings at my right i attempt a landing but the wind catches me and whirls me around two or three times i stop my mo tor instantly my machines descends straight upon the land from a height of twenty meters in two or three seconds i am safe upon the shore soldiers run up and policemen two of my compatriots are on the spot they kiss my cheeks the conclusion of my flight over whelms me i have nothing to say but accept the congratulations of representatives of the daily mail and accompany them to the lord warden hotel thus ends my flight across the english channel flight could easily be made again the flight could easily be done again shall i do it i think not i have promised my wife that after the race for which i have entered i will fly no more mme bleriot said to the representative of the Chicago examiner i am very happy it seemed a year since i waited on the bridge of the destroyer longing for him to start then when he rose mounting like a bird into the sky my tears came how could i help it when i thought of the danger he was about to enter my fears vanished when i saw how well he was flying when at last he passed over ivy head i clapped my hands joyfully again i was despondent when he disappeared from our sight and i feared greatly it seemed he could never reach england i cannot tell facts about bleriot's flight and monoplane left les baraques calais 4:30 a m landed at dover 4:55 a m distance twenty-one miles time of transit twenty-five min utes average speed forty-five miles an hour highest speed sixty miles an hour altitude of flight 250 feet dimxihsions of mosoplane from tip to tip of wing twenty feet weight of machine 400 pounds motor twenty-five horsepower south side hit in ghaft phobe to-day 200 summoned more startling revelations are promised than on west side frank sees plot to impeach his confession vice ring agents seek to silence divekeepers heitler as ringleader said to be using threats to aid mc cann collector says broth er saw him pay inspector shatz accused official in desplaines station plummer admits he visited mccann's home with frank to complain about police man who had arrested him the big graft ring in the twenty second street district will be the tar get for the heavy guns of state's at torney wayman's office to-day and revelations which are expected to ex ceed in magnitude the disclosures made in regard to the west side will be revealed before the grand jury two hundred subpoenas are out for the habitues of ther district and the men who have long been in power on the south side levee are trembling for their safety the preparations for the big south side expose were made while the west side vice caldron was still seeth ing and boiiing the state's attorney is not through with the west side by any means and many subpoenas to appear before the grand jury were served upon resort keepers along peo ria green and halsted streets by de tectives from the state's attorney's office during the afternoon try to stop witnesses already preparations are being made by the vice ring to discourage witnesses from telling their stories of graft to the grand jury louis frank saloon keeper and politician who-e confession of bribe giving led to the indictment of inspector edward mo cann declared yesterday that the keepers of dives and resorts were be ing visited by agents of the ring who were using every means at their com mand to place a seal upon the lips of the graft witnesses story stopped grafting frank declares that michael heitler nicknamed mike the pike is the ringleader of the graft agents and that he is cajoling and threatening witnesses in an effort to impeach the confession made to the grand jury by frank my story has stopped grafting on the west side and men who have fat tened for years off of the money paid by women and criminals in the dis trict are trying to get me said louis frank yesterday i was forced into the graft ring by inspector mccann and have never profited to the extent of one dollar from the money i col lected it all went into mccann's pockets says he has witnesses i was warned to-day that there was a big frameup on foot whereby an at tempt would be made to show that while collecting money from resort keepers i was doing it on my own re sponsibility and was putting the mon ey in my own pocket can you corroborate your story of giving bribes to mccann was asked yes indeed i can was the reply my brother julius saw me give him one roll of money amounting to about 4o0 and morris shatz who started the present in vestigation because he was sore at mccann because he did not get the police protec tion that he was paying for himself talked to mccann about graft and openly accused the inspector several weeks ago iu front of uif desk sergeant's window in the dco pl.vne street police statlou says plummer knows of graft max plummer is another man who know something about tiie grafting of mel'anu for he was in mcc'auu's own iionie when i m the bargain with the , inspector to let try ou the prosecution of continued on 2d page 2d column Â» " rlt wwaimmr_fli____3ii_an3cp jjl weather forecast ft fr Chicago and~vicinity un ft ft Â» settled and partly cloudy with prob j vj ably showers monday or tuesday t.*f oj continued warm light to moderate ffl -Â«?â€¢ - variable winds mostly southerly *%_Â£*.â– large profit from small effort may be obtained by a careful read ing of the wairr ads which ap pear on pages 10 and 11 among classifications under which bargains are likely to be found are real estate busiucss chances household goods barter and exchange mctor marts horses and carriages bt